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TarrVetus

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Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« on: April 01, 2010, 08:18:30 pm »

... that nothing involving the new release is a joke.

Totally unexpected.  Best prank of the day.
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #1 on: April 01, 2010, 09:55:27 pm »

No, I think his prank was denying us all of celebrating April Fools Day  by playing this new version all day.

That, I don't mind at all. Then again, the above is still rather awesome.

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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #2 on: April 01, 2010, 09:57:58 pm »

I think the actual april fools day joke is raising all our CPU temps high enough to melt Bauxite. Three hottest machines I've ever seen:

My old laptop
A 700 HP diesel engine with a broken cooling system
This computer running DF2010
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WHY DID YOU HAVE ME KICK THEM WTF I DID NOT WANT TO BE SHOT AT.
I dunno, you guys have survived Thomas the tank engine, golems, zombies, nuclear explosions, laser whales, and being on the same team as ragnarock.  I don't think something as tame as a world ending rain of lava will even slow you guys down.

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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #3 on: April 01, 2010, 09:59:31 pm »

I think the prank is that you cant resize the DF window. This version is such a teaser :P
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #4 on: April 01, 2010, 10:04:05 pm »

Clearly you need a 700 HP diesel laptop. It's the dwarven thing to do.
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #5 on: April 01, 2010, 10:07:34 pm »

Clearly you need a 700 HP diesel laptop. It's the dwarven thing to do.
Yes please.
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #6 on: April 01, 2010, 10:12:37 pm »

Maybe the prank is that tomorrow he'll release a real version with many bugs fixed, or it could just be a bugfix release....
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #7 on: April 01, 2010, 10:19:32 pm »

Clearly you need a 700 HP diesel laptop. It's the dwarven thing to do.
Yes please.

Note that said old laptop ran hotter than a diesel engine without cooling. It lasted 6 years. I think the chips finally just oxidized to the point where they couldn't execute code anymore.

And technically, when I use my handy-dandy car charger, my laptop is a 700 HP diesel laptop.

I'm thinking of building another one using magma lead and hydrochloric acid stored in a hopefully-sealed container for power.

Then I'm going to strap it to my back.
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I dunno, you guys have survived Thomas the tank engine, golems, zombies, nuclear explosions, laser whales, and being on the same team as ragnarock.  I don't think something as tame as a world ending rain of lava will even slow you guys down.

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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #8 on: April 01, 2010, 10:21:23 pm »

Back on topic, the joke is that magma and water temps mightve been switched
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #9 on: April 01, 2010, 10:23:34 pm »

No, I think his prank was denying us all of celebrating April Fools Day  by playing this new version all day.

That, I don't mind at all. Then again, the above is still rather awesome.
I don't mind. I celebrated at midnight, when a couple websites I frequent changed drastically.
Back on topic, the joke is that magma and water temps mightve been switched
I suppose that would explain why dwarves melt in the rain.
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #10 on: April 01, 2010, 10:57:46 pm »

Clearly you need a 700 HP diesel laptop. It's the dwarven thing to do.
Yes please.

Note that said old laptop ran hotter than a diesel engine without cooling. It lasted 6 years. I think the chips finally just oxidized to the point where they couldn't execute code anymore.

And technically, when I use my handy-dandy car charger, my laptop is a 700 HP diesel laptop.

I'm thinking of building another one using magma lead and hydrochloric acid stored in a hopefully-sealed container for power.

Then I'm going to strap it to my back.
What do you drive, a tractor?
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #11 on: April 01, 2010, 11:15:07 pm »

No, I think his prank was denying us all of celebrating April Fools Day  by playing this new version all day.

That, I don't mind at all. Then again, the above is still rather awesome.
I don't mind. I celebrated at midnight, when a couple websites I frequent changed drastically.
Back on topic, the joke is that magma and water temps mightve been switched
I suppose that would explain why dwarves melt in the rain.

Ahh, so that's why all my dwarves are melting trying to get supplies from the wagon, hehehe.
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #12 on: April 01, 2010, 11:27:22 pm »

Unless this is a mistake I've been reading the raws and Toady One has deemed it to be that male giants are to be known as giantesses and female giants are the giants... If anyone wants a look see search for semimegabeast and scroll down to the caste level for male/female
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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #13 on: April 01, 2010, 11:59:10 pm »

Clearly you need a 700 HP diesel laptop. It's the dwarven thing to do.
Yes please.

Note that said old laptop ran hotter than a diesel engine without cooling. It lasted 6 years. I think the chips finally just oxidized to the point where they couldn't execute code anymore.

And technically, when I use my handy-dandy car charger, my laptop is a 700 HP diesel laptop.

I'm thinking of building another one using magma lead and hydrochloric acid stored in a hopefully-sealed container for power.

Then I'm going to strap it to my back.
What do you drive, a tractor?

A truck that tows tractors. On trailers. And flies.
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I dunno, you guys have survived Thomas the tank engine, golems, zombies, nuclear explosions, laser whales, and being on the same team as ragnarock.  I don't think something as tame as a world ending rain of lava will even slow you guys down.

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Re: Toady's April Fools' Prank Is...
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2010, 12:40:47 am »

Anyone dumped something in magma yet? It takes a surprisingly long time to die.
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